Terrible

Rating: Null/10 (6 November 2003)

SPOILERS, as if the director didn't already spoil it. If this picture ran on MST3K, the Robots would have been left speechless. Not since Ed Wood's days have I seen a picture that lined up so many improbably events. A virus that can completely take over a huyman body in 10 seconds. Jet planes arriving from somewhere that radio signals cannot be transmitted from. An emergency sheet-sewing job on a hand-operated machine that turned out absolutely perfect uniform block-letters. Red dresses belonging to the lady of the house, that perfectly fit two women whose height differential was at least a foot. Wait---driving into a TUNNEL in a land where any dark place is certain to be full of infected? And keep on going in spite of obstacles highly likely to disable the car? And replacing the wheel in dire peril, instead of driving out on the flat? Come on! The hospital scene, where Jim wakes up (after a month in a coma, with full body strength!) Fully lit corridors, in the interior of a large building, where no exterior light could have penetrated, with no electrical power. These are just a few inconsistencies that occurred to me the next day.